Stephen William Wilkins (February 15, 1946 - March 25, 2013) was an Australian physicist known for his contributions to the field of Phase-contrast X-ray imaging.
Wilkins' parents were originally from Brno, Czechoslovakia, but emigrated and came to Australia in 1939.
Wilkins attended Preshil, The Margaret Lyttle Memorial School in Kew.
He got his PhD in 1972 at the same university with a thesis titled "Correlations and Interactions in Binary Alloys".
[5][6] Wilkins had an instrumental role in the conception and launch of the BigDiff beamline, BL20B, at the Photon Factory in Japan.